The Addams Family Season #1

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

SEASON #1

EPISPDE #1: THE ADDAMS FAMILY GOES TO SCHOOL – Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, visits the Addams family because neither of the children has ever set foot in school. He convinces Morticia and Gomez to meet with the principal, Miss Comstock. Miss Comstock, who doesn’t think much of Mr. Hilliard, persuades the Addams to put Wednesday and Pugsley in school, but also asks Hilliard to revisit the Addams home. The Addams children are disturbed by the Grimm fairy tales that are read at school; they think that dragons are really being killed. Hilliard is frightened by the Addams, especially Lurch and the loud gong that summons him, but he is most shocked when Gomez suggests he try the wrack for relaxation. Sam Hilliard, a truant officer shows up at the Addams family home, due to the fact that Pugsley and Wednesday are not attending school. Soon he discovers he’s dealing with no typical every day family. Later, Gomez and Morticia agree to enroll Wednesday and Pugsley in school but make a shocking discovery: Fairy tale violence. The show opens with the mailman putting the mail in the mailbox and Thing grabbing it out of his hands. The truant officer, Mr. Hillard asks the postman if this is the Addams residence and says that the Addams children have never been to school. Wednesday answers the door and shows Mr. Hilliard in. Mr. Hilliard is shocked by the décor and the antics between Pugsley and Wednesday. Mr. Hilliard is then introduced to Mrs. Addams in the conservatory. He tells Mrs. Addams that the children must attend school because it is the law. Morticia says: “I would love to discuss that with you Mr. Hilliard but you see. I can’t. You must speak to my husband. You see the law is his responsibility.” Morticia pulls the noose rope to ring the gong. Lurch arrives to take Mr. Hilliard to Mr. Addams. The next scene has Lurch opening the study doors to reveal Mr. Addams engrossed in his miniature train set. Mr. Hilliard tries to introduce himself but notices the rains on a collision course. He says, “Look out they’re going to crash!” Gomez says, “You think so?” Gomez pushes the plunger and the trains and the bridge they are on blow up. Mr. Hilliard asks, “You meant to blow them up?” Gomez replies, “Of course, why else would a grown man play with trains?”

EPISODE #2: MORTICIA AND THE PSYCHIATRIST – The Addams go into a crisis alert: Much to their horror and shame, Pugsley shows a sudden keen interest in joining the Boy Scouts, going so far as to also start raising a puppy. There’s nothing for it but to call a child psychologist to save the lad and family honor from these bizarre new fascinations. Dr. Black recommends indulging the boy’s new directions for a whole – strange as they might seem – but when he’s called in for an emergency visit and notes the décor of the Addams house (not the camping equipment piled high on the living room floor), he gets the wrong idea where the boy’s errant and grotesque interests have been indulged. Gomez and Morticia are shocked when Pugsley joins the Boy Scouts, begins playing baseball and even gets a puppy. Fearing something is wrong, they turn to a psychiatrist, who begins to analyze the boy and makes the suggestion to Gomez and Morticia that they should cater to his every whim.

EPISODE #3: FESTER’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE – Uncle Fester is looking for love, but when a door-to-door saleswoman comes knocking he’s not sure she’s his type. Uncle Fester puts an ad in the personals column and when he doesn’t get an immediate response he’s heartbroken. Later, the Addams family mistakes a cosmetics saleswoman as a respondent to the ad. Fester’s been sly and secretive lately, more than usual, and has also taken to intercepting the daily newspaper deliveries. He’s been scanning the lonely hearts columns looking for a bride. Fester finally fesses up and writes a letter, with Gomez happy to snap the picture to adjoin it. Days pass without a response. When Miss Carver appears at the door, she’s mistaken for Fester’s correspondent – a desperate wannabe housewife with suitcase in hand ready to move in. She’s actually a door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman and her smooth and mildly seductive sales pitch, with a 90-day plan to make over Fester, is mistaken for a callous disregard in matters of the heart. When she discovers what she’s been mistaken for, she flees, never to return.

EPISODE #4: GOMEZ, THE POLITICIAN – The Addams family’s proud tradition of backing losing candidates continues when Sam Hilliard runs for city council. Election day is nearing and Gomez is getting very excited. He puts up all his old campaign posters; notably all of Gomez’s favorite candidates were losers. Sam Hilliard is running for city council and Gomez throws his support behind the man. Hilliard is eager to get his hands on Gomez’s campaign contributions. However, Gomez declares that he’d like to see the money spent in certain ways. After hearing some of the Addams’ suggestions, Hilliard wishes they would stay away from his campaign altogether. Sam Hilliard, the ex-truant officer, is running for city council. This puts Gomez in the campaign mood and he decides to offer financial support. However, Hilliard soon finds that winning the election with the Addams family on his side may be quite a challenge. Morticia comes out to the main room to find Fester and Grandmama watching a political convention. They turn down the volume to avoid upsetting Pugsley’s octopus. They tell her that Gomez is in the playroom and Morticia goes down to find her husband hanging up political posters of past candidates: Dewey, Landon, Wilkie, Stevenson and Stephen Douglas. Gomez assures Morticia that the Addams are kingmakers, not candidates, and he now plans to help Leonard Q. Quimby in his campaign for city council. As Gomez puts a poster of Quimby up on the gate, campaigner George Bass comes by with posters for Quimby’s rival, Sam Hilliard. George doesn’t know about the Addams and convinced Gomez that he’s backing the wrong candidate. Eager to get Gomez’s support, George says that Sam plans to drain the swamps and take out the streetlights. Gomez, interested, offers to support Sam instead and George eagerly accepts and hands over his posters. Once he leaves, Morticia comes out and Gomez explains that he’s following the noble Addams tradition of switching horses in mid-stream. She’s surprised to learn that Sam is in favor of draining the swamps, but her husband assures her that all candidates make extravagant promises that they can’t keep just to get votes. At Hilliard’s campaign headquarters, Sam is shocked to learn that George has convinced Gomez to support them. George warns him that the campaign is running low on money and they need Gomez’s financial support but Sam figures that it isn’t worth it. That night, Gomez has Morticia, Grandmama and Fester make campaign posters for their new candidate. Morticia is surprised that Sam hasn’t come over for campaign tips and Gomez sends Lurch to get him. Lurch brings Sam in and Morticia shows him her sign saying that he’s the people’s “fiend”. Sam tries to leave but Thing grabs him and he cheers up when Gomez offers him $20,000. However, he’s not so happy when he hears that Gomez has some conditions. Gomez wans to put Lurch on TV to get the women’s votes and have the children make speeches to bring in the junior voters. Sam tries to bargain Gomez down on the amount of money. When he hears Fester’s campaign song, Sam offers to pay Gomez to drop out but Gomez refuses. Even when the candidate says that he’s a grafter and he actually plans to make the streets darker and the swamps boggier, the Addams are eager to keep supporting him. When Morticia calls Kitty down and says that the lion can serve as the campaign mascot, the candidate runs out screaming. Later, Gomez is at home rehearsing a speech he wants Sam to give. Morticia listens and gives helpful advice, basically telling him not to say anything because its too controversial. The speech boils down to “I thank you”. The couple then goes outside and sends Lurch, Lester and Grandmama out to cover the precincts on the day of the election. At Hilliard headquarters, George tells Sam that everything is looking good. Sam figures that he got rid of the Addams. However, when George goes out to check the precincts, he calls Sam to tell him that the Addams are out campaigning. At home, Gomez and Morticia are watching the news and see a report about Sam chasing Fester with a stick. The reporter dismisses the reports of Fester glowing as a figment of his imagination and Gomez assures Morticia that their candidate really isn’t beating Fester with a stick. Once the voting concludes, Sam goes to see Gomez although he admits to George that’s probably suicide, Gomez figures that Sam is there to thank them for his win and George calls from each precinct to tell them that Quimby is winning by a landslide. Quimby finally calls to inform Sam that he’s won and Gomez figures that their opponent has fallen into the fatal trap of overconfidence. Receiving the news, Sam faints. Later, Gomez is practicing yoga and reading a story on the campaign. Sam is planning to leave the city – and the country and Morticia figures he needs a vacation after the stress of the campaign. In another story, Quimby credits Gomez with winning the election. Sam calls to tell them that he’s glad that he’s lost because the Mayor is appointing him as head of the school board. Gomez, satisfied that he’s helped both candidates, goes downstairs to hang up Sam’s poster along with the others.

 EPISODE #5: THE ADDAMS FAMILY TREE – Pugsley and Wednesday get into a fight over families, with their friend Harold, who says that his family is better than their family. This prompts the Addams to look back in their family tree. Pugsley and Wednesday attend a birthday party for neighbor Harold Pomeroy. Though Morticia instructs her children to be modest about their advantages, it’s not an attitude reflected by the Pomeroys, who call them kooks and proclaim them inferior. Incensed, Gomez hires Mr. Pomeroy’s genealogist, Professor Simms to examine the Addams family tree for ancestors to flaunt at them. In the interim, Mr. Pomeroy completely changes his manner due to oil he thinks he’s found on land owned by Gomez. Before the two meet up to discuss business Simms spills the beans on several unsavory characters in Pomeroy’s family tree, which only serves to impress Gomez and Morticia. The Pomeroys really are better than the Addams. It later influences the discussion of the land purchase, prompting Gomez to gush over Pomeroy’s blood-thirsty ancestors while Pomeroy, mortified, drives up his own price to keep Gomez from talking further.

EPISODE #6: MORTICIA JOINS THE LADIES LEAGUE – Gomez and Pugsley visit an old friend of the family, who owns a circus. There, Pugsley befriends Gorgo the Gorilla who later escapes and follows Pugsley home. Meanwhile, Morticia has hopes of joining the Ladies League. Pugsley and Gomez visit Oscar who owns a failing circus. Pugsley befriends Gorgo, a gorilla, Gorgo follows them back to the Addams’ house. Gomez hopes to find a spot for Gorgo in the household. To the dismay of Lurch, Gorgo shows some aptitude for some of the butler’s tasks. Meanwhile, Morticia aspires to join a social club for women, The Ladies’ League. When the ladies visit Morticia at home, will Gorgo’s style of service impress the guests?

EPISODE #7: HALLOWEEN WITH THE ADDAMS FAMILY – It’s Halloween at the Addams’ house when a pair of hold-pup men come in for refuge after their getaway car runs out of gas. As police intensely comb the area, criminals Claude and Marty, accepted as party-goers, put up with the creepy household’s holiday festivities as best they can, till Gomez’ desk full of ready cash catches their eye. Now they want to stay but, unbeknownst to all, This is on to them and ready to take matters in hand. The Addams family has prepared for an evening of fright, for it is their favorite holiday, Halloween. As Gomez carves the Jack O’ Lantern and Grandmama takes Pugsley and Wednesday out for a night of trick-or-treating, two bank robbers, on the run from the police, decide to hide out at the Addams home. Gomez gets a new carving knife in the mail and has Morticia sharpen it for them. He then goes to work using Fester as a model to carve a Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween night. Morticia assures her husband that their children are eager to go trick-or-treating and goes out to the kitchen to make punch. As Thing takes the cookies out, Grandmama comes down to tell the family that the children’s costumes are ready. In the distance, a police car drives by, siren blaring. Outside the Addams’s house, robbers Claude and Marty abandon their car when they run out of gas. They approach the house looking for a place to hide and only Claude notices that the gate opens on its own. Marty figures that he’s paranoid and accuses Claude of losing it when it slams shut behind them. Pugsley and Wednesday come down, dressed as adults and the family advises them to warn everyone that they’re just children because their costumes are too convincing. They check the Jack O’ Lantern and assure Gomez that it looks much better than Fester. Grandmama grabs a bag to go out with them and Gomez escorts them to the porch. They spot Claude, who is wearing a mask and figure that the robbers are guests come to the Halloween festivities. The robbers play along and Gomez invites them to come in for the party. Marty refuses… until he hears the police sirens in the distance. At that, he and Claude quickly go in. Inside, the robbers assume that the Addams’s decorated the house for Halloween and that Fester and Lurch are made up for the party. Gomez asks them to open the bag of loot so he can give them apples and Marty refuses. Lurch yanks it away from him anyway and Claude holds his friend back, realizing something isn’t right. When Gomez sees the money from the robbery inside, he assumes that their neighbors gave it away for Halloween, opens a desk drawer and throws in a couple of thousand dollars. Realizing that they’ve stumbled on to a good thing, the robbers decide to stick around. However, they soon discover that Lurch’s “mask” is real. They start to leave but the police car drives by again and Marty says that they’ll stay. Everyone goes to get the treats and Marty tells Claude that they should look around to see if there’s other money lying around. In the kitchen, Morticia and Gomez prepare the punch and Morticia points out that Marty looks just like her former fiancée, Rupert Stixx. Gomez reminds her never to mention his name again and kisses her hand, just as the punch explodes.

In the main room, Marty tries to open the desk drawer that unaware that Thing has replaced his gun with a banana. When the family returns, Marty ends up drawing his banana on them and Morticia figures that it’s a prank. Fester turns down the lights and then illuminates the room itself and Gomez reads the traditional Halloween pome about the Halloween witch and her eight tiny vampire bats. The robbers panic and head for the door, but the police car drives by again and they reluctantly come back. Next up is party games and the Addams’s insist that the robbers play Bobbing for Crabs. The robbers refuse, until two policemen come to the door. Marty and Claude dunk their heads in the tub until the policemen leave and then try to pull the crabs off their faces. The Addams’s congratulates them on winning and call Kitty down when Marty says that he’d rather wrestle an alligator. The robbers scream and Kitty runs back upstairs, while Fester eagerly goes bobbing for the crab. Realizing that they are trapped, Marty gets an idea and tells Claude that they’re going to play a game so that they can get the money. Claude reluctantly agrees but Marty suggests that the Addams’s hide while they seek. Gomez and Morticia don’t see the point because no one gets injured or maimed, but are glad to humor their guests. As they ide, Gomez wonders if they’ve made a mistake inviting in such eccentric guests. Once they’re alone, the robbers get the drawer open and load up the money. However, Thing emerges from the umbrella stand to lock the door. When Claude grabs a cane to break down the door, Thing grabs it back and the robbers panic. Gomez and Morticia, hiding in the greenhouse, figure that their guests are thoughtfully letting them win. Meanwhile, the robbers find Gomez hiding in a suit of armor and run into a close, only to find Lurch moaning in the back. Grandmama returns with the children through the front door and the robbers run out. Gomez and Morticia go to wish them goodnight and see the policemen taking their guests away and figure that the nice policemen will take care of them. Later Gomez, is practicing yoga and Morticia is knitting. Gomez spots a newspaper article about Claude and Marty being “sent up the river” and the happy couple figures that they’re taking a long and well-deserved vacation.